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<a href="B24C049.html"><font size=+2 color=red>49</font></a>
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<td class="v">49:1</td>
<td>Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?</td>
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<td class="v">49:2</td>
<td>Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">49:3</td>
<td>Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.</td>
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<td class="v">49:4</td>
<td>Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?</td>
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<td class="v">49:5</td>
<td>Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.</td>
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<td class="v">49:6</td>
<td>And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">49:7</td>
<td>Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?</td>
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<td class="v">49:8</td>
<td>Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.</td>
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<td class="v">49:9</td>
<td>If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.</td>
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<td class="v">49:10</td>
<td>But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.</td>
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<td class="v">49:11</td>
<td>Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.</td>
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<td class="v">49:12</td>
<td>For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.</td>
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<td class="v">49:13</td>
<td>For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.</td>
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<td class="v">49:14</td>
<td>I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.</td>
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<td class="v">49:15</td>
<td>For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.</td>
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<td class="v">49:16</td>
<td>Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">49:17</td>
<td>Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.</td>
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<td class="v">49:18</td>
<td>As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.</td>
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<td class="v">49:19</td>
<td>Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?</td>
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<td class="v">49:20</td>
<td>Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.</td>
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<td class="v">49:21</td>
<td>The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.</td>
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<td class="v">49:22</td>
<td>Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.</td>
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<td class="v">49:23</td>
<td>Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.</td>
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<td class="v">49:24</td>
<td>Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.</td>
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<td class="v">49:25</td>
<td>How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!</td>
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<td class="v">49:26</td>
<td>Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.</td>
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<td class="v">49:27</td>
<td>And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.</td>
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<td class="v">49:28</td>
<td>Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.</td>
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<td class="v">49:29</td>
<td>Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.</td>
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<td class="v">49:30</td>
<td>Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.</td>
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<td class="v">49:31</td>
<td>Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.</td>
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<td class="v">49:32</td>
<td>And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">49:33</td>
<td>And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.</td>
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<td class="v">49:34</td>
<td>The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">49:35</td>
<td>Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.</td>
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<td class="v">49:36</td>
<td>And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.</td>
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<td class="v">49:37</td>
<td>For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:</td>
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<td class="v">49:38</td>
<td>And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">49:39</td>
<td>But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.</td>
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